Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Apr 2006 15:34:59 -0700 | From | Ben Ford <> | Subject | Re: Who wants to test cracklinux?? |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! >> I've written a small kernel module & shared object for kernel 2.6 to >> enable the following for normal users: >> >> - inb()/outb()... via a wrapper function > ioperm() does that already, no? You mean, you enable it for non-root, > too? That's security hole.
My OS development classes have a lab of machines that run entirely as root just for these reasons. I think it's valid to allow these operations as non-root in certain situations. It is better than running *everything* as root, no?
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